Amanda Foreman was born in London in 1968. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, New York, she has a DPhil in history from Oxford University. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire won the 1998 Whitbread Prize for Best Biography. Since then, the book has inspired a Channel 4 documentary and a Radio 4 drama. Amanda Foreman divides her time between teaching and researching in both New York and London.